The Reconciliation Center
About The Reconciliation Center
The Reconciliation Center administers a cooperative and institute, an organic farm and an intentional community of women committed to restoring right relationships between and within people and nature. Designed to forward the work of the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Center fosters awareness of mechanisms of internal, interpersonal and socio-political conflict, and hosts healing retreats, workshops, exhibitions, and dialogues. Working with land, and local and global communities, it brings people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative justice.
Retreats
We are building a retreat center where in a single space, practitioners from all walks of life contribute and offer services, teachings and frameworks for hands-on learning, healing and reconciliation. Participants will engage in hands-on learning, develop tools to assess and measure cultural competency, dive deep into processes of healing and reconciliation, explore ancestral and traditional methods to rebalance and restore self, other beings, ancestors, and the broader environment, and learn to incorporate what they’ve experienced into all aspects of their transformation.
Institute
Restore Forward’s Institute brings together several faculty who contribute and offer services, teachings and frameworks that people and institutions from across the globe can access. We provide tailored long-term transformational work. Our team of coaches and facilitators is made available upon request to deliver training and technical assistance.
Matriarchal Village
We are gathering a village of healers, midwives, peace practitioners, activists and community builders to develop Restore Forward’s capacity, broaden our current blueprint and develop new pathways to restoration and reconciliation. Those teaching and working on the farm will be part of the living community that will take up residence on the property.
Farm
We are preparing the land for holistic farming and for practicing integrative medicine, ensuring health for the soil, food for the people and creating land stewardship for future generations.
Restoring our connection to the land must be a commitment in all planning for a 21st Century program. Our land stewardship curriculum draws the connection between land sovereignty and body sovereignty and will be guided by the principles of rematriation and ecofeminism – an understanding of the connection between the exploitation and degradation of the natural world and the subordination and oppression of women. Our approach is steeped in honoring plants and food as medicine and how we harmonize our bodies with the land.
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